Week 7 & 8: 09/08/09 & 16/08/09

August 22nd, 2009

Week 7
Nothing :(

Week 8

Sunday
Sea swim: 20 minutes

Monday
Cycle: Distance 5.46, Time 21:39.9, Average 15.1, Max 26.2

Tuesday
Cycle: Distance 5.46, Time 21:34.0, Average 15.2, Max 30.0

Thursday:
Cycle: Distance 6.35, Time 28:39.1, Average 13.2, Max 35.1

Saturday:
Cycle: Distance 5.20, Time 22:47.1, Average 13.7, Max 26.8

Well as you can see last week I did nothing and felt pretty pants for it. So this week I’ve tried to get back into the swing of things. Today’s cycle was more of a pleasure cycle rather than full on going for speed and distance. As a result I decided to venture down some of the roads which I haven’t been down before. Actually found what looks like a derelict building which might be cool for a photoshoot.

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Week 6: 02/08/09

August 7th, 2009

Monday
Badminton: 50mins, 3 games of doubles and one of singles

Tuesday
Cycle: Distance 5.46, Time 21:05.7, Average 15.5, Max 30.0

Wednesday
Cycle: Distance 5.45, Time 20:37.0, Average 15.8, Max 29.3

Thursday
Cycle: Distance 5.46, Time 20:33.1, Average 15.9, Max 25.2
Badminton: 50mins, 3 games of singles

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Camera lighting techniques

August 3rd, 2009

Well after spending the last couple of weeks working on some nightmare PHP code, I spent a couple of hours looking into camera lighting techniques. Up till now I thought I had a great understanding of the relationship between shutter speeds and apertures, and how by varying these increase one and decreasing the other you can maintain the correct exposure of an image, whilst creating different effects such as decreased depth of field or motion blur. However, after watching a video on lighting I realised that whilst my understanding was correct and I was using it correctly. There was another relationship between these components and the final image which I wasn’t fully aware of. This being the relationship of aperture to flash lighting and shutter speed to ambient lighting. Depending on the situation this actually means you can completely separate these two controls allowing you to create some rather funky images.

So now what I need to do is put this into practice and create some exciting images.

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Week 5: 27/07/09

August 3rd, 2009

Monday
Sea Swim: 15 minutes

Tuesday
Cycle: Distance 4, Time 16:32.5, Average 14.5, Max 23.0

Wednesday
Cycle: Dsitance 5.45, Time 21:16.5, Average 15.3, Max 31.4

Hmmm, not a very good week

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